Medicine Balls
Consultations with the World’s Greatest TV Doctor

Dr Phil Hammond

Category: Humour
Pub Date: October 2007
Extent: 256 pp.
Price: £9.99
Format: Paperback, 197 x 127 mm



Medicine Balls is the hilarious new book by Britains’s favourite and funniest GP, Dr Phil Hammond. The world may be full of TV doctors, but only Dr Phil has appeared on Have I Got News For You seven times, Countdown nineteen times and is medical correspondent for Private Eye.

Dr Phil has worked in the NHS for twenty years, but has only used it once. So how does he remain so healthy? And what sort of Doctor is he? Here are transcripts of Dr Phil’s greatest consultations, genetically modified to protect patient confidentiality, the innocent, the not so innocent and the downright bonkers.

Medicine Balls is a humorous dissection of the NHS, a subject close to his heart and other organs. So take a seat, roll up a sleeve and let Dr Phil explain all in his highly entertaining way.

‘One of the most entertainingly subversive people on the planet ‘
The Guardian

‘Great to have a pint with but you wouldn’t want him as your doctor ‘
The Times